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Sep 18 , 2021

CORN LEAF RECYCLING

Horse-drawn carriages are still in use in most parts of the country, as is the case in Hawassa. This one is transporting corn leaves, the part that is not used for consumption after the removal of the...

Sep 18 , 2021

ENTREPRENEURS OF AHUN

Nigusu Tilahun, head of the Jobs Creation Commission, talks to entrepreneurs at the graduation ceremony of an incubation program, Ahun, on September 17, 2021, at the Ethiopian Skylight Hotel. Chosen f...

Sep 18 , 2021

FROM ANOTHER ERA

The glory days of this Volkswagen Beetle are far behind it. Like many of its kind, it can no longer take on the streets, which has been taken by younger fitter versions of Volkswagens, but mostly Asia...

Sep 18 , 2021

World Bank Scraps Doing Business Report

The World Bank ceases publishing its annual Doing Business Report, after irregularities were discovered in the reports published in 2018 and 2020. The report was among policy tools adopted by authorit...

Sep 18 , 2021

Aid Trucks Remain Unaccounted For

The UN has expressed its concern that hundreds of trucks carrying aid to Tigray Regional State are not returning. "Only 38 out of 466 trucks that entered Tigray since 12 July have returned," said a...

Sep 18 , 2021

Exports Generate $676m in Two Months

Export revenues for the first two months of the existing fiscal year have totalled 676 million dollars. The figure represents a 16pc jump from last year. Coffee, horticultural products and khat com...

Sep 18 , 2021

Germany Donates AstraZeneca Jabs

The German government has handed over 271,200 doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to the Ministry of Health. The donation was made through the COVAX facility amid a surge in infections and death...

Sep 18 , 2021

Japan Grants 7.9m Br to Schools

Two schools in the Southern and Sidama regional states are the recipients of a 7.9 million Br grant from the Japanese government. Part of the Japanese Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security...

Sep 18 , 2021

National Carrier Expands Fleet

Ethiopian Airlines has acquired an additional Bombardier aircraft from de Havilland Canada. The 'Dash 8' is the 32nd such aircraft to join the company's fleet since it made the first acquisition in Ma...

Sep 18 , 2021

Hawassa Industrial Park Housing Project Launched

Cornerstone Development Group, a company engaged in real estate, has officially launched a construction project to develop housing for workers employed at factories in Hawassa Industrial Park. Lyin...

Sep 10 , 2021

WELL WISHES

Three young men are going shop to shop singing in Oromiffa in Piassa. This is a familiar tradition during holidays, mostly by a group of men more than three. They sing well wishes for a better New Yea...

Sep 10 , 2021

CHIBO AND GRASS

Ethiopian New Year's eve is one of the holidays where chibo, bundle of dry sticks tied together, are burned in celebration as a bonfire. The sale of chibos is a seasonal market in such times as is un...

Sep 10 , 2021

NEW YEAR CHORUS

It is a tradition for young girls to go house to house to sing well wishes for the Ethiopian New Year, which has been celebrated yesterday. In groups, they dress in traditional clothing and use instru...

Sep 10 , 2021

MSF Ceases Operations

Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has ceased the majority of its operations in Ethiopia following a three-month suspension order from the Agency for Civil Society Organisations. It has suspended all of i...

Sep 10 , 2021

Health Officials Confirm Delta Variant

Health officials have confirmed the detection of the delta variant of COVID-19 in Ethiopia. During a joint press conference held last week, Lia Tadesse (MD), minister of Health and Getachew Tolera...

Sep 10 , 2021

US Donates 42m Br Worth of Medical Equipment

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has donated 46 modern tuberculosis diagnostic equipment worth one million dollars to the Ministry of Health. The handover took place i...


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